Vortragseinladung - Wiener Physikalisches Kolloquium

WIENER PHYSIKALISCHES KOLLOQUIUM
TU-WIEN - UNIVERSITÄT WIEN
SS 2016
Einladung zum Vortrag von
Fulvio Ricci
Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Roma Sapienza
INFN Sezione di Roma
The first direct detection of
Gravitational Waves and beyond.
The direct detection of Gravitational Waves opens a new windows to look at the Universe. This
great success is the result of a long experimental effort ended with the construction of the second
generation of GW detectors.
These advanced instruments, installed in USA and Europe, employee high sensitive laser
interferometry to probe the fundamental nature of gravity and the history and future of the
Universe. LIGO in USA, and Virgo in Europe are the backbone of a network, which will be
expanded soon with the addition of the Japanese interferometer KAGRA.
In this talk we report the results obtained during the first scientific run of the network when just the
two LIGO interferometers were running. Then, we will review the scientific perspectives of the
network paying attention on the noise sources limiting its sensitivity.
The scientific community has already started a study aimed to a further increase of the detector
sensitivity for the next (3rd) Earth-based generation detector (ET).Thus, we will conclude by
reporting the new ideas for the second phase of advanced detectors and for the ET project.
13. Juni 2016, 17:30 hrs
(ab 17 Uhr Kaffee)
TU Wien-Freihaus,
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8 – 10
1040 Wien
Hörsaal 5,
2. Stock, grüner Bereich
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